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Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023
  • Published: 3 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781681377001
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 184
  • RRP: $39.99
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Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems, 1985-2023

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Meditations on city life in Mumbai, Calcutta, and the United Kingdom as well as elegies for the dead populate this original collection.

Amit Chaudhuri, one of the most exploratory writers of English-language fiction, has also written and published poetry that shares many of the concerns of his prose while sounding a distinct and memorable note of its own. This book collects the greater portion of that work for the first time, starting with St Cyril Road (2005), Sweet Shop (2019), Ramanujan (2021), and a selection of new and uncollected poems, as well as translations from Bengali.

This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.
  • Published: 3 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781681377001
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 184
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

About the author

Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri was born in Calcutta and grew up in Bombay. He attended University College London, Balliol College, Oxford and has also been a writer-in-residence at Wolfson College. His novels include A Strange and Sublime Address (1991), which received the 1991 Betty Trask Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Freedom Song (1998) and A New World (2000), which, that year, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In addition, he writes short stories, poems and critical essays in English. Chaudhuri is also an acclaimed Indian classical musician. He is currently a creative writing tutor at the University of East Anglia.
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